Best thing I've ever seen at Applebees was a really drunk guy vomiting into the salad bar.
The staff immediately cleared the salad bar area, took out MOST of the stuff that was vomited in/near. They pulled the salad dressings out of the slots, and then wiped down the case, They then put BACK the salad dressings; one of which, the Russian dressing, had some vomit-shrapnel across it. The solution to that dilemma was not to replace the Russian dressing, but just stir the vomit into it so it kind-of disappeared.
Yum!